Ministry Life

I have a weird piece of advice for you.
Be lazy.
Okay - of course I don’t mean like legit lazy. There are 10% of you that might actually be lazy, and you people need to get off your butts and get to work. ...

Recently, a pastor friend of mine read for me Judy Brown’s poem “Fire.”
Brown does a masterful job of capturing what our job as youth ministers should be: making space for God to do His work. She uses th...

In ministry, everything does not always go the way we would like. Sometimes things break down and go so wrong, and we can’t fix them. I recently was on a trip that bombed, and I don’t handle failure well. A...

As an 18-year-old freshman in college, I learned to rock climb.
Steve was the experienced climber with all the equipment. Brad and I were the cocky friends who were ecstatic to learn the ropes of cli...